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7. When I was a kid in the 60s, out riding my bike,

Tue Jun 7, 2022, 11:20 PM

Jun 2022

I could tell who had just mowed by the smell of clover. You almost never smell it now.

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BRING IT ON Skittles Jun 2022 #1

I SO hear you on that! thucythucy Jun 2022 #12

YOU GOT THAT RIGHT Skittles Jun 2022 #13

Saving water... rubbersole Jun 2022 #3

American spite toward clover in their lawns speaks volumes. KY_EnviroGuy Jun 2022 #6

When I was a kid in the 60s, out riding my bike, rsdsharp Jun 2022 #7

Yes, and that wonderful smell of fresh mowed alfalfa hay.... KY_EnviroGuy Jun 2022 #9

I still remember being a 'kid' of lawn-mowing age in the Abolishinist Jun 2022 #8

When I was a mail carrier I walked over thousands of lawns. alfredo Jun 2022 #10

I never water my lawn Siwsan Jun 2022 #11

Where I am, we don't have a water crisis (yet) Chainfire Jun 2022 #14

My neighbors need to be born again. peacebuzzard Jun 2022 #15

I seeded much of my lawn with Dutch white clover. NutmegYankee Jun 2022 #16